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At least five civilians, including three women, were injured in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in "unprovoked" shelling by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday, officials said.The shelling, which began at about 7am in the Nakyal sector of southern Kotli district, coincided with a weekly hotline contact between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of Pakistan and India in the wake of Sunday’s mortar attack on an army vehicle in Neelum valley.Officials said there was no let up in Indian aggression along the LoC in Nakyal sector after yesterday's attack. The Indian DGMO had made it clear to his Paki counterpart that India reserves the right to retaliate in case of provocation - and this was probably what it was !

"There has been indiscriminate mortar shelling since 7am in the morning, targeting almost all villages of Nakyal sector," police official Khurshid Ahmed told Dawn from the area. "So far, five people have been brought to the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Nakyal, with multiple injuries, but I am afraid there might be more injured persons," he said.

"Such acts have the potential to escalate which then will be extremely detrimental to peace and stability," he maintained, according to a handout by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).He also made it clear that while the Pakistan Army had been exercising restraint, recurrence of any such incident in future could, however, leave it with no choice but to respond with further "strong and effective" steps.

"While we don’t want to go down the path where we start choking each other’s supply lines; however, any such recurrence will invoke more strong and effective measures from Pakistan’s side," Maj Gen Mirza told Lt Gen Bhatt. Indian media quoted their DGMO as "making it clear" to his Pakistani counterpart that the Indian Army was "sincere in maintaining in its effort of maintaining peace and tranquillity" along the LoC, provided "reciprocity" from Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD: According to a recent press report, the government of Pakistan has finally realised that its 3-year Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) implemented in 2016 has failed and it needs to be discarded and recalibrated.

When the policy was being implemented in 2015, some of us had pointed out that the framework was likely to face the same fate as its predecessor 2012-15 policy. Now that we are nearing June 2018, our target date for achieving $35 billion, it is being realised that we never had the right policies in place.

Our poor export performance means we will continue to be a laggard in the South Asian region. Although our economy is now growing at about 5%, faster than any time in the last ten years, it is still one of the slowest in the region. India is expected to grow by 7.4% in 2017 and further to 7.6% the year after. Bangladesh is expected to grow at 6.9% in 2017 and 2018. Bhutan is estimated to grow at 8.2% in 2017 and 9.9% in 2018 through focusing on hydroelectric projects. Even the earthquake-devastated Nepal’s growth is at 5.6% in 2017 and 5.4% in 2018; ahead of us as we are forecasted to grow at 5.2% in 2017 and 5.5% in 2018.

Shailesh Kumar, Senior Analyst:Asia, Eurasia Group,( RAA?) joined Angie Lau and Bryan Curtis to discuss the political turmoil in Pakistan, including looking ahead to the hearing on the findings of a corruption probe into Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He spoke on the need for stability, the fact the country does have reasonably healthy growth and concerns over security and terrorism.

When Pakistan women cricket team returned home on Monday morning, there was neither any officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to receive them nor was there any transport facility available for them, even one female cricketer was picked up by her father on a motorbike. JIT or no JIT Immediate protest should be lodged with Maryam Sharif - D/O of the nation !

After taking part in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 in England and losing all their seven matches, when the national women cricketers returned home, unfortunately, there was not a single PCB official present at the airport to receive them and the board also didn’t arrange any transport facility for them. When most of the women cricketers managed their personal transport to go home, one female cricketer was picked up by her father on a motorbike.Hope Abb-aji, Ami-ji and Ayesha-jan- shown pillion riding- are not "challanad" on the way home by the "bribe- hungry" Police.

Pakistan women team gave the worst performance in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 as they lost all the seven matches they have played so far. The sources revealed on Monday that with such pathetic performance, big changes are expected in the national women team as well as team management. Sana Mir is likely to be removed as captain, while interim women coach Sabih Azhar is also likely to be sacked after this poor performance of women team. All that may be so,- as there are sufficient enough reasons to get angry about the loss, performance etc etc but is it not "common courtesy" to officially receive the team and at least ensure that the females reach their home safe and sound

The sources further said that Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shaharyar M Khan is very angry with women team and management and he now wants an immediate overhaul in the team as well as management.

. Angry or not angry, someone should have the "guts" to take him to task for (i) not receiving them at airport (ii) for not providing official transportation

“Most of the non-performing teams as well as old players, ( so, they have already passed their "expiry date" by Paki standards. And their inclusion in the team- and a chance to "go abroad" on state expense - was probably on non-merit basis i.e. " sifarish" ) who are now have well passed their peak will be replaced with the young and talented girls, who are performing exceptionally at national level and are knocking at the national team’s door. By giving them proper and fair, better results can be get from the national women team,” said one source who requested anonymity.

KARACHI: Inflation refers to an increase in the general price level. There are several causes of inflation: a rise in demand-demand pull inflation and a rise in cost-cost push inflation etc. But the most dangerous of these is the inflation caused by printing money in the view of monetarist which is a distinguished school of thought among economists.

Pakistan, like other economies, is largely suffering from this evil. It has been reported that the government has added Rs 127billion in March-April this year which is too much and should raise some red flags.

Two workers of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP)(splinter group of Altaf's MQM) were killed in a suspected targeted attack in Orangi Town on Monday evening, according to Superintendent of Police Abid Ali Baloch. The officer said that the PSP workers were sitting at a corner of a street near Qazafi Chowk behind Sindh Government Qatar Hospital when armed pillion riders attacked them and fled.The men received fatal bullet wounds and were taken to the nearby Qatar hospital ( Ummah brother- Qatar- "sweet talked" into financing it ) where doctors pronounced Abdul Hameed alias Nadeem alias Mulla, 55, as dead on arrival. Moreover, Rashid Khan, 50, was shifted to a private hospital in North Nazimabad in critical condition, where he later succumbed to injuries. “The victims belonged to the PSP and it appeared to be a targeted killing incident,” said SP Baloch. The police said that the attackers wore helmets. The investigators collected four spent bullet casings fired from a 9mm pistol from the crime scene.A PSP spokesperson discussed the matter with Dawn and agreed that the act was an act of targeted killing. The party official said that Nadeem was an office-bearer of District West while Rashid was associated with the Karachi division of the party. He added that this was not the first time PSP's party workers were targeted in the metropolis. It seems the various factions of MQM are fighting it out on the streets of Karachi. Fauji propaganda says that situation has "much improved" over the years !

Over 1,500 government-run primary, middle and high schools in Balochistan were found, during a verification process, to exist only on paper, officials said on Monday. The Balochistan government and Unicef jointly conducted a survey( UN must have funded these !)with regard to the verification of schools over May 2016 to May 2017 to track down ghost schools across the province. Over 1,500 schools out of the total 10,788 could not be found, officials in the education department told DawnNews.

However, Balochistan Education Minister Rahim Ziaratwal put the figure of ghost schools at 1,400. "We could not identify 1,400 schools during the verification process," the minister said. In Balochistan, the number of government-run primary, middle and high schools are above 13,000.

Last year, the government had launched a verification process of schools throughout the province. The verification process was conducted through Education Management and Information System (EMIS)."We have ordered an inquiry into the matter ( ordered, taken note etc etc but nothing likely will be done !) and departmental action will be taken against the concerned officers," Ziaratwal said.

The EMIS survey also revealed that 90 per cent schools in the province had no sanitation facility. Funds worth Rs1 billion, allocated for the provision of clean drinking water and construction of toilets, had lapsed( wrong word ! disappeared into someone's pocket would likely describe the same ) during fiscal year 2016-17.

PS: When is UNICEF going to "audit" the "ghost teachers" of the 1500 ghost schools mentioned here !!!

MURREE – At least three tourists were wounded when a leopard attacked them in Murree, Dunya News reported. According to reports, the injured were roaming on Guldana Mohra Shareef road when the beast appeared from the bushes and attacked them. After the incident, rescue officials reached the spot and shifted the tourists to a nearby hospital. Now, the injured persons are out of danger. The incident has sparked panic among the public in the area. A variety of rare animal species can be found in Murree, including the leopard, which inhabits the neighbouring Galiyat region. As the leopards are now starving after humans have invaded their habitat, the hungry leopards sometimes enter villages in search of food.So, even the leopards are "not happy" that the Pakis - breeding like rabbits - have now started to encroach on their natural habitat . Immy of PTI should take "note" that "one day", these same leopards might come to his nearby Bani Gala residence looking for "tasty" breakfast, lunch or dinner .

Hindustan Times reports our Ministry of External Affairs has flatly rejected the media story that appeared in the press of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, undoubtedly planted by the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Punjab proviince dominated military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, as garbage:

The “Official” response of our Ministry of External Affairs to the fevered imagination of the media story in the press of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan planted by the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Punjab proviince dominated military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

Response to a query regarding casualties of Indian soldiers in the Indian state of Sikkim due to military action with another country

July 17, 2017

Responding to a query about reports emanating from a neighbouring country about casualties of Indian soldiers in the Indian state of Sikkim due to military action with another country, the Official Spokesperson said that such reports are utterly baseless, malicious and mischievous. No cognisance should be taken of them by responsible media.

SSridhar wrote:CRS, the Paki Rangers/Army are lungi-shivering because India seems to have changed the tactic to pro-actively target the terrorists and their supporting Ranger/Army units across the LoC into occupied territory. It appears to me that we are no longer going to wait for somebody to attempt infiltration beforeshooting them down. So, it is not a PR advantage that TSPA is seeking, but plain shivering. Already, the high rate of terrorist-killing in J&K is shaking them up. Pakistan is trying to project this latest as aggression. That's how it appears to me.

Usually I have observed that when TSPA do admit to their soldiers being killed in cross-border/LoC firing, they follow them up with made up claims of inflicting at least twice as many casualties on us. One may recall Rawheel's bombast on "be a man, claim your casualties". Maybe Bajwa is planning something similar to shore up his "image", which has taken a steep nosedive with TSPA being hammered from Neelum valley to Taftan.

India Today’s take on the story and fake video undoubtedly planted by the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Punjab Province dominated Military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that their Taller than Himalaya’s, Deeper than Indian Ocean, Sweeter than Honey, as Close to Lips as Teeth, Iron Brother, the Peoples Republic of China killed some 150 plus Indian soldiers.

Dunya News TV aired a fake video clip of injured Indian soldiers saying at least 158 Indian soldiers have been killed as China fired rockets across the border on Indian border installations.

Dawn TV too aired a similar report. Twitter went abuzz with images and videos of the "attack" with some India-haters from the other side of the border even commending China's "action".

It is likely that Pakistani media became victim to a fake war propaganda conceptualised by the Pakistani army as no mainstream media will run fake news knowing that truth will be out in the open in a matter of few hours leading to a loss of credibility.

Punjab Province dominated Deep State of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan shows its contempt for lives of Kashmiri’s suffering under the Islamic Republic’s cruel occupation of parts of the Indian Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.

After the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan refuses to provide a letter signed by Sartaj Aziz to support application for a medical visa to visit India for Osama Ali who is living in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, our Minister of External Affairs steps in and grants Osama Ali a medical visa waiving requirement of a letter from Sartaj Aziz as Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir is Indian territory.

First Indian Express on the refusal of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistanto provide a letter signed by Sartaj Aziz to support application for a medical visa to visit India for Osama Ali who is living in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir:

Diagnosed with a tumour in the liver, a 24-year-old in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir wants to travel to New Delhi for treatment but is unable to make the journey because Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs, will not write a letter to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad that the youth be granted a medical emergency visa. ………………………

Osama’s father Javed Naz Khan, a lawyer in Rawalakot and a worker of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), said he has no means to get his son treated in Europe or elsewhere. “It’s least expensive in India. I am the unfortunate father who is not able to provide treatment to his son,” he said over phone, breaking down as he narrated how his son was losing weight rapidly.

Khan said he had appealed to Aziz through PoK President Masood Khan. “But the Foreign Ministry said it was not the policy for Aziz Sahib to write the letter. The practice is for the Secretary in charge of the South Asia desk to write a letter, but we have learnt that the Indian High Commission has rejected some visas with these recommendations,” he said.

“I appeal to India to give a medical visa to my son without the letter,” Khan said.

Next article from NDTV on our Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj stepping in and granting Osama Ali a medical visa waiving requirement of a letter from Sartaj Aziz as Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir is Indian territory:

Tweet of our Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, on the granting of a medical visa to Osama Ali sans recommendation letter of Government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s, Sartaj Aziz, given that Osama Ali was resident in India territory under Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s illegal occupation:

Things are going very well in Pak.The Sherrif found to be a corrupt PM by the Paki SC,the once disgraced ,exiled ex-Gen.,ex-Pres.the Bandicoot,Mushy-the -Rat,may actually return ("I will return..." ,he thinks he's MacArthur!) to the scene of his manifold crimes,and the uniformed tribal leader of the Paki army,twiddling his thumbs,not knowing which decision to take,in the splendid environment of chaos everywhere,while Indian troops retaliate killing Paki soldiers daily,makes for very interesting times in Pak.The emergence of ISIS in J&K is for us an extremely serious matter,but it is also a double-edged sword.For if we can keep its rabid influence under control over here,it will simmer and erupt in Pak,adding to the state of chaos existing there,with grave ramifications for that chewed up entity. The well-known scribe Abdel Bari Atwan,who appears regularly on the BBC,predicted this happening as ISIS was losing its grip in Syria and Iraq,and that it would "migrate" to other hotspots like Pak,J&K,etc.

This gives us some breathing time needed to urgently fortify ourselves against Chinese machinations and mischief in the Himalayas/Tibet. Meanwhile,let's keep the arty batteries busy...

arun wrote:Tweet of our Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, on the granting of a medical visa to Osama Ali sans recommendation letter of Government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s, Sartaj Aziz, given that Osama Ali was resident in India territory under Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s illegal occupation:

The natural order has come calling for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Perhaps one of the savviest and most resilient politicians in our history, Sharif has been left for dead many times, and come back every time. We all remember how intensely resourceful the late Ghulam Ishaq Khan was. We all remember the incredible appeal of Shaheed Mohtarma BB. We all remember the blunt charm of SSG hero Pervez Musharraf. Nawaz Sharif saw off the challenge of every one of these giants, and stands alone. The fact that he managed all this without the Oxford charm of BB or Imran Khan, without the muscle of the military, at least since 1997 onwards, and without the education and guile of a CSP/DMG training is a tribute to just how good he is at surviving and winning in the Pakistani political arena.

Dunya News TV aired a fake video clip ...It is likely that Pakistani media became victim to a fake war propaganda conceptualised by the Pakistani army...

The fake news in Pakistani media appears to be part of a war propaganda to intensify tensions between India and China

Chinese media denounces ‘groundless Pakistan news reports’ on death of Indian soldiers along Sikkim border

China’s official media on Tuesday “denounced groundless” reports by a section of Pakistani news outlets claiming the death of 158 Indian soldiers in attacks by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) amid a military standoff along the border with Sikkim.

“According to an investigative report released by the People’s Daily on Tuesday, the Chinese embassy in India had noticed the report and has denounced its authenticity.

fake news is based on unverified information from social media and the Internet,

The nationalistic tabloid Global Times also published a report on Tuesday, calling the Pakistani media report “groundless and fake.”

There you go. People's Daily, GT and the chini embassy (all paragons of honest and ethical reporting)- have denounced the report. This is a TSPA planted news story in the social media via their usual sources and, I bet at this very moment, Waist Bajwa is looking for a couple of usual idiots in ISPR to blame.

'World has become a global village': LHC lifts Pemra ban on airing of Indian playsMoney, money, maaneeeey!! Paapi pate ka sawal tha! Realization sets in, in less than a year.

Pemra had issued a notification imposing a blanket ban on all Indian content on Oct 19, 2016

The petition challenged the Pemra circular as being beyond the powers of the regulatory body and the Constitution, and claimed that the government was indulging in "selective patriotism"

The petitioner's counsel Asma Jehangir argued in court today that a ban on Indian teleplays appeared bizarre

LHC Chief Justice Mansoor Ali Shah stated that Indian content with objectionable or anti-Pakistan content could be censored

"The world has become a global village"

In another story, maryam isslapped her no good abba nawaj sh'reeef who had accujed maryam of ishleeping with the dushman kaptaan who was trying to bring down sh'reeef's bijness umpire of "abs of ishteel" and ....no, wait that's for another season of the saas-saas serial.

ISLAMABAD: In the wake of strained relations between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Doha’s high-powered trade delegation has visited Pakistan last week for exploring opportunities for importing meat including beef and mutton, chicken, rice and dairy products worth over a billion dollar. All subject to The Qatari Prince fulfilling his "promise" to provide a "clean chit" to Ganja Sharif

Qatar is a rich country having potential to import over a billion dollar food items from Pakistan. “In the upcoming Special Economic Zones (SEZs) which will be established with the help of China, proposals are under consideration to establish modernised farm houses with the purpose to boost exports of live animals as well as of both beef and mutton manifold in years ahead,” said the official sources. Exports of food, at the cost of the Awaam going hungry !

Earlier, Qatar used to import major chunk of food items from Saudi Arabia but after strained relationship with Gulf States now Qatar is exploring new markets to import food items and Pakistan can become potential player in this regard in weeks and months ahead. Is it "OK" if Pakistan is seen siding with Qatar in this inter- Ummah tiff

President Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) Zubair Tufail on Monday confirmed to this paper that Qatar’s trade delegation paid visit to Pakistan last week for exploring trade opportunities and they were interested in importing food items. Hope that The Head Of The Two Holy Mosques does not punish Pakistan for supplying the "essentials of life" to the "starving Qataris"

GUJRANWALA: At District Headquarters Hospital doctors put a patient on same bed for treatment that already had a body lying on it, today.A resident of Aminabad in Gujranwala, Noor Muhammad was taken to the District Headquarters hospital when he was having trouble in breathing. Later Noor succumbed to death, and his body was not removed from the ward when another patient was place on the same bed for treatment. Later the hospital administration said they were forced to do so because of shortage of bed facilities in the ward. Can Ummah Brother , Qatar "help", as they have financially helped in Karachi. After all, Pakistan is "helping" them in meeting their "food shortage"

A student from Karachi has bagged a bronze medal in an international chemistry competition held in Thailand, among participants from over 75 countries, including the United States, China and Russia.

A paki stood third among 250 plus contestants from 75 countries!! Great news, and, for once the paki nations goes into delirium. At least until this happens. After one googles this contest to only learn this arthshashtring reality: Everyone got a medal because everyone is special.

Then, a nalayak amongst the BRF cadres named Rajat comes along and pricks the inflated paki balloon with this comment:

RajatNot fair dawn....36 students won gold, 65 won silver and 97 won bronze out of total of 297, rest didn't win anything. 1 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze for Indians. You are making it sound like maaha won the 3rd place when actually her rank was 177 out of 297. the result is on their website which can be accessed on Google.

For perspective, I know a little about Pakistan's math olympiad team.. They are taking part since 2005, most (90+ of the participants) get ZERO. In 2016 for example TOTAL team score (all 6 combined was ) 18!!! which (average score 3 - half got zero).. For comparison .. EVERY indian student got more than 18!!! while Pak got Zero medals, India got something like 5 medals including one silver.(Americans, routinely get close to 6 gold almost every year)

In all those years, there was just one student, (IIRC he got bronze or HM some time in the past) who got double digit score.

(Worse is Paki math team's ethics..those guys even cheat even in practice tests while some international coaches tried to help their team -- whole Pak does not have a single good math coach and in past other countries tried to help them)

BTW the math olympiad is going on right now as I mentioned in math dhaga.

For those who are unfamiliar:

- Any participant which is able to do one problem (out of 6) correctly gets HM award. - About 50% students get Bronze/Silver/Gold Medal. - The Gold/Silver/Bronze are awarded in the ratio of 1:2:3 .. as the numbers go. So if there are 120 students taking part, 10 will get gold, 20 Silver, 30 Bronze.

Senators on Tuesday raised questions over the role of former army chief Raheel Sharif in the Saudi military alliance after they were told that the coalition has yet to take formal shape. How long (even going by "Saudi Standards" !) does it take to form "formal shape" - whatever it means

Babar asked whether Sharif wished to signal his availability post-retirement to Saudi Arabia and whether the announcement was made for the benefit of the Saudi leadership. IMO, Ganja was the catalyst is getting Raheel the Muslim NATO job . Used his "influence" with the Head Of The Two Holy Mosque . In return, Raheel "promised" to leave Ganja alone - politically and corruption wise speaking

Rabbani further asked how the government had deemed it okay to send a former army chief —[u] who has knowledge of the country's nuclear secrets — to a sensitive area without even knowing what he would be doing there. So, here is one senator casting doubts about Raheel's commitment to the world's first Islamic takat !

But as the cliche goes - no use crying over split milk , or locking the barn door ( nuclear secrets !) after the horse ( Raheel ) has already escaped . But wait, if Raheel is still in La-Whore, watching the JIT Drama, the Paki Govt can put him on ECL, to stop the "outflow of nuclear secrets"

ISLAMABAD: Desperate to [b]understate the budget deficit, the government has included the same amount of Rs64 billion as ‘non tax revenue’ in 2016-17 after it already booked the money as part of its earnings from the Saudi Arabian ‘gift’ of $1.5 billion two years ago.

This has raised suspicions of figure fudging which, if proven, may invite penalties from the International Monetary Fund, as a single item cannot be booked twice. The IMF had also imposed penalties on Pakistan after coming to know of fudged fiscal accounts during the second year of the PML-N government.

At least 217 students and 15 teachers trapped in three schools close to the LoC during a deadly rain of mortar shells from Pakistan were rescued on Tuesday in a daring operation conducted by police and the district administration. One of the school buildings in the Nowshera sector took direct hits but there were no casualties. . . . . An official spokesperson said the students were trapped for over six hours.

This desperation by Pakistan shows that the targetted attack that manured a few Pakistani Army soldiers a couple of days back has indeed rattled the Pakistani terrorist army.